Hubei girl Zheng Qinwen won the gold medal in the Olympic tennis women's singles, and how many people stayed up late to watch the game and witnessed this championship, which is remarkable. This is China's "zero" breakthrough in this sport, which was previously dominated by Western societies, and they played a lot of games, so the gold content of this medal is particularly high. What makes people feel even more excited is that Zheng Qinwen's road to success seems to have opened a broad road to sports industrialization. And United States has done a particularly good job in this regard, and many times China's progress is "crossing the river by touching United States", and then going out of its own way. I believe that after tennis, in China, it will be able to go smoothly.
However, many people began to calculate how much money Zheng Qinwen's family could make, and they took it for granted and honored. What's even more powerful is that Zheng Qinwen's success does not require a huge amount of capital investment from the state, and their family has paid a lot, and of course they will get a lot in return. Such a development path is definitely a positive cycle, and it is continuous, long-lasting, and has successors.
A real sense of relaxation
There are many deficiencies in the organization and management of the Olympic Games in France, which is not called a sense of relaxation, this is called absurdity and low ability. The real sense of relaxation refers to the fact that sports are restored to their original appearance, in the words of Chairman Mao, "barbarism is its body, and civilization is its spirit." "There is no need for sports to take on more symbolic meaning to win glory for the country.
In United States bars, huge TVs are not necessarily broadcasting the Olympics, and Americans love the Olympics, but they are not crazy enough to watch the Olympics all over the country. While I was eating pizza, the Olympics were switched to golf. That's right. Many Olympic sports are insensitive to many United States, so why should the United States federal government invest in it? Does United States care about the medal table? Of course I care, otherwise there will be no first place in the total number of medals, not the first in the total number of gold medals. But United States actually have a lot of money problems and will never spend a lot of money to support all projects for gold medals.
To be honest, many Olympic sports are insensitive to Chinese, such as equestrianism, which is an old and outdated means of transportation. In the West, it is considered to have a cultural influence. But why should we Chinese throw ourselves into this movement? It's boring, we ourselves don't have good horses since Emperor Wudi of Han, our Mongolia horses are not used for equestrian play, and the so-called "aristocratic fan" displayed is even more unsuitable for our water and soil, and the most important thing is that this project is extremely expensive. A horse costs tens of millions of yuan. In the final analysis, the Olympics are a continuation of Western history, so there is equestrianism; If the Olympics were a continuation of the history of the East, we might have rice planting competitions. So for the playboys, that aristocratic equestrian competition and our rolling up trouser legs and planting rice are essentially the same thing, just a cultural embodiment.
At that time, it was understandable that the prosperity of sports represented the strength of the country to some extent. But now, after the Beijing Olympics, the people's attention to the Olympics has slowly decreased a lot, and to be honest, the country's strength does not need to be expressed through sports. This is reflected in the sense of relaxation, the United States only cares about their favorite sports at the Olympics, otherwise they play their own. I think China will do this in the future, and there is no need for all projects to have a fight.
The sports industry in United States
I really like the classification of United States, which is to classify sports as entertainment, and rightly so. Sports stars and movie stars are physically fed. The biggest sports in the United States are football, baseball, basketball. In addition to basketball, it is basically played in the United States, but Americans don't care, because the industry chain is big. How many United States are involved in this. It is estimated that the United States sports industry chain accounts for nearly 1% of United States GDP, and this is not counting some of the other economies of scale.
China's sports industry is also gradually developing, according to statistics, it is nearly 1%, but compared with United States, there is an essential difference, that is, China's sports industry, the government's investment is huge, in 2019, the State General Administration of Sports and Sports investment reached 40 billion yuan. The federal government in the United States has invested very little, with direct amounts of only hundreds of millions of dollars. Most of the inputs are private, or federal or state indirect (tax incentives, etc.). Moreover, these sports industries are cash cows, which not only stimulate domestic demand for United States, but also have a large number of people invested in sports. A positive cycle of funding is formed, without the need for government subsidies. United States has done a good job of this.
China, which is involuted, needs the sports industry even more
The key to the competition between China and the United States lies in high technology and finance, and certainly not in sports. China needs a lot of investment in high-tech, but what about sports? Do you want to suffer a little? Bear with me? More importantly, China really needs to learn like United States in sports and be able to form an industry without huge investment from the state.
The key to Sino-US competition lies in high technology, finance, industry, and public opinion. So those who study well are blessed, but what about those who study badly? The inch is long, the ruler is short. If you don't study well, you will block the child's way out. China also needs to find a way out of all kinds of talents. For example, there are many children who like sports in China, but unfortunately the room for growth is too narrow, if there is a sports industry, then this is how big a door it opens! It is not necessary for many children to take the paper in study, but also in sports.
And how much domestic demand will be brought by China's sports industrialization. For example, if the Northeast can develop a skiing sports industry, not to mention how many jobs it will bring, and how many southerners who have never seen snow will come to play just by one tourism.
At the national level, for the vast number of working people, it is still necessary to have the entertainment project of "nipple music" proposed by Brzezinski. This has always been the case in ancient and modern times, and this is the reason why ancient Rome built a gladiatorial arena.
China and the United States compete to learn from each other
The all-encompassing competition between China and the United States is no different at the Olympics. Playboy thinks that the comparison on the gold medal list is a way, but I think what is even better is to compare the sports industry behind it to see who earns more money, who has more cash flow, and who can bring more domestic and external demand. This is a kind of positive competition.